Atari founder Bushnell: Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs

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03 Oct 2013, 22:47posted on

If the name Nolan Bushnell doesn't ring a bell with you, perhaps it should. Bushnell is a tech veteran who started up Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, and he hired 19 year-old, sandal wearing Steve Jobs back in 1974 as a developer making $5 an hour; his sense of current Apple CEO Tim Cook is that he is the guy you would want to keep things steady...

I have said it for some time now, Gates and Jobs are one-of-a-kind geniuses. They didn't get hired to do the job, they created what was Microsoft and Apple at their best and two of the most succusful companies of all time. Balmer and Cook are just guys who were hired to step in .. Balmer ran MS into the ground, Tim Cook may fair better but the way Apple is changing everything that Jobs created in just two years, I think Cook is doing even a faster job and ending Apples reign than I could of ever imagined lol

That's a pretty bold statement seeing as a lot of people would lose their jobs if the iPhone were to "go down." Although you may be waiting a while since 9 million of them were purchased in the opening weekend. Still, you shouldn't hope for something to fall apart. Try hoping for improvement.

Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs and that's probably a good thing. Steve Jobs could sell anything to anyone, but he was also a jerk. Tim Cook has been nicer to his employees, the public, and even trying to do better by Foxxcon employees. I have no complaints about this.

And as far as innovation goes, remember many companies have their roadmaps set years into the future. We don't know how much of that is the case with iOS. But next year is Apple's year. They have no excuse not to deliver. iOS 7 is amazing for the amount of time in which it was built, but by next year, they will have had a great amount of time to really transform our experience. Same goes with the hardware and other Apple products. Forstall is no longer an excuse.

This sentence is so true "I have a feeling -- and this is a funny thing that happens with people who are very buttoned down -- that (Cook) probably thinks he's innovating, when in fact it's just micro-evolution," said Bushnell. "They were able to build (the new iPhones) cheaper, which is something I would expect Tim Cook to do."

Apple is not innovating anymore it's just micro-evolution. Very true that Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs. :)

The statement is true. But there will be someone who may be inspired by Steve Jobs. There will be someone who may be better or similar to him. The question is when and where is this someone? At least I believe that only the one who posses great abilities and talent like him is the one who has founded his/her own company.

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